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Subject: perl 4.036 and FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:40:24 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <32892898.41C67EA6@ability.net> from "Aliza R. Panitz" at Nov 12, 96 08:47:04 pm
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I wrote:
> 
> I have some legacy code that runs under perl4.036, which I have
> been unable to port to perl5.
> 
> I have been unable to get perl4.036 to compile under FreeBSD, nor
> have I been able to use my BSD/OS 2.0 binary (though all mny other
> BSD/OS binaries run just fine under FreeBSD)
> 
> I used the "i386" hints; should I have gone in from scratch?
> 
> Is there anywhere I can find help in building or fetching perl4.036
> for FreeBSD?
> 
> Any pointers will be greatly appreciated...
> 

I should have mentioned my O/S version:
FreeBSD white.ability.net 2.1.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 17 03:09:31  1996     jkh@whisker.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386

My perl is crashing with a bus error, even after I re-ran h2ph

 - Aliza
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